This album was entirely improvised in one take. I played classical and flamenco guitar in restaurants and other gigs for years - often for 3 hours at a time - and gradually dispensed with sheet music and set pieces in favor of just letting the music pour out of me the way it wanted to.

Baroque Reflections

Flamenco, Latin American folk, classical.

Guitar Music of Latin America and Spain

Branle - Georg Leopold Fuhrmann

The Royal Canal

A thirteenth century piece for lute transcribed by John Renbourne of Pentangle.

La Rotta

Argentina • Peru • Spain

Romanza

Alfonsina y el mar

16 TONS

Lily of the West

LILY OF THE WEST

LASS FROM THE LOW COUNTRY

I love Harry Belafonte, who made this song a hit, not the least because his fellow Jamaican Millard Thomas played beautiful melodies of accompaniment on a classical guitar, which was one of my main inspirations to learn the instrument. In this case I've lowered the guitar tuning 2 steps so I can still use his open string riffs within my vocal range - hence the twangy sound.

JAMAICA FAREWELL

Traditional song with original guitar melody

500 MILES

Vocals with held notes and 3 guitar breaks.

You Don't Have To Be Anything That You're Not

I often played at Sabor y Cultura, a coffee house in LA in the early 2000s - see the link below. The best nights musically were often those with the least number of patrons, because I could set a mood without fighting sonically with a loud reverberating room. This tango (no relation to the Argentine tango but the name) is in 4/4 time unlike much flamenco which is in hemiola, alternating measures of 3/4 and 6/8time. This style features lots of golpes - taps with the right hand ring finger - and rasgueados - the unique flamenco strums that are either short or long and always stop abruptly on a powerful beat. https://www.yelp.com/biz/sabor-y-cultura-los-angeles

Tangos Flamencos

Sabor y Cultura • Yo Enamore un Aire • Zorongo

Baroque Reflections-2

Baroque Reflections-3

Baroque Reflections-5

Baroque Reflections-4

Baroque Reflections-1

3 guitar tracks - one accompaniment, and two for the harmonized lead, plus Glen Mont on fretless bass.

La Partida

Son-Samba

Zamba

Vals Venezolano

Loomoombashi

Dowland

Vals

Renaissance Dance

Milonga

La Corrida

Canarios

Rumba del Sol

Paracho

Fantasia - Francesco da Milano

Tanz 16

Parkington's Pound 16

Fantasia - Georg Leopold Fuhrmann

Parkington's Pound

Tanz - Georg Leopold Fuhrmann

Kemp's Jig

Polnischer Tanz

Lautenstück

Compassion

A fingerstyle guitar piece with an alternating bass line. Art by Jeffrey Briggs.

Tampico Stomp

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